There will be no kissing in the photocopier room this year,
no embarrassing tales of one to many on the work night out. No, the Christmas
party is going to be enjoyed live from your living room this year and many
bosses are panicking as to how they can keep their colleagues entertained
en-mass while they’re all staring at their computer screens.
Never fear though, technology can be your saviour and there
are plenty of things you can enjoy over video calls as a company to keep
everyone entertained.
Here are our top tips on how to save your virtual Christmas
party this festive season…
Hire A Comic
Many companies will go to a comedy night or hire a comic to
compere their Christmas parties, and there’s no reason that can’t happen
virtually too.
Many comics have been doing stand-up online over the past
seven months and there are plenty of ways to get colleagues involved, with
interaction just as easy as being sat on the front row.
As well as this, you could also buy a ticket for all your
colleagues to watch an online comedy night, with multiple acts taking part
across the evening.
Bingo
Bingo is also a regular at Christmas parties, with great
prizes on offer. 2020 has proven a big year for the game too, with more people
than ever before playing online bingo, with the industry seeing a huge boom in
revenue.
The more traditional forms are universally loved, with the
likes of 90-ball bingo and 75-ball bingo easy to understand and plenty of fun
to play along with.
Additionally, the likes of Bongos Bingo have been popular
Christmas parties over the last few years, and while you may not be able to all
head out to enjoy that, there’s no reason you can’t bring the bingo to your
colleagues.
If you’ve never played bingo before, there’s many useful
resources online which you can turn to such as these bingo FAQs. Regardless, it’s very simple to
set up a virtual bingo game with you being able to email all your colleagues
their bingo cards and then create some makeshift numbers and a bucket to draw
from, just as you may do with a Grand National sweepstake.
Alternatively, there’s the option to also use a random
number generator, which will choose numbers for you, and it’s simply up to you
to read them out, bingo caller style of course!
Quiz
Quizzes are always a massive part of Christmas and the Zoom
quiz has become synonymous with lockdown and keeping ourselves entertained
during the pandemic.
You could either hire a professional quizmaster to join your
video call, with plenty having started to specialise in it over the last few
months, or you could create one yourself, whether it be themed
around your colleagues and business or a simple general knowledge one.
Similar to bingo, prizes should be on offer for the winner,
and if you have the power you could really set the stakes high and give
colleagues the chance to win an extra day off!
With any quiz though it is important you do appeal to the
consensus. Don’t make it overly difficult so people tune out and keep the
questions generally relevant to the bulk of people’s interests. For example, in
a workplace full of 20-somethings, it’s probably not a good idea to have a
round based on 1970s TV or the orchestral works of Bach. They will not go down
well.
Talent Show
If you want to make your virtual Christmas party as
interactive and engaging as possible, then a virtual talent show may be the one
for you, particularly if you have a fairly outgoing and confident workforce.
The way to do this would be to put the call out for anyone
wishing to take part a few weeks before so they have time to prepare their act,
and you have the time to collate the running order and intros, and then simply
run it all through Zoom, with the rest of the call then voting on the winner
either via email or in the chat boxes.
It’s relatively easy to create and is mightily enjoyable,
potentially creating a Christmas party you really will never forget!
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